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David’s Lamentation
Public Domain Old-Time Hymn; Tune: William Billings, 1778; Lyrics: Holy Bible: II Samuel 18:33
ARTIST: Alabama Sacred Harp Convention Singers
SHHET MUSIC:
CATEGORY: Traditional and Public Domain Gospel;
DATE: William Billings, 1778;
RECORDING INFO: David's Lamentation - Billings, William
Vinson, Lee (ed.) / Early American Songbook, Prentice-Hall, Bk (1974), p141 [1778]
Alabama Sacred Harp Convention Singers. All Day Singing from the "Sacred Harp." Southern Journey 7, Prestige International INT 25007, LP (196?), trk# 15 [1959-60]
Alabama Sacred Harp Convention Singers. Sacred Harp Singing, Library of Congress AFS L11, LP (1959), trk# B.08 [1942/08]
Alabama Sacred Harp Convention Singers. Southern Journey. Vol. 9: Harp of a Thousand Strings, Rounder 1709, CD (1998), trk# 2 [1959/09/12]
Alabama Sacred Harp Convention Singers. White Spirituals from the Sacred Harp, New World NW 205, LP (1977), trk# A.02 [1959]
Old Stoughton Musical Society. Appeal to Heaven, Old North Bridge ONB 1762, LP (1975), trk# B.03
Rogers, Sally. Unclaimed Pint, Wheatland 005, LP (1979), trk# B.02b
OTHER NAMES: "David, the king, was grieved and moved"
SOURCES: Original Sacred Harp
NOTES: "David’s Lamentation" is a fuging shape-note hymn with lyrics from the Holy Bible: II Samuel 18:33 that was set to music by William Billings in 1778. It's in the original Sacred Harp and also the 1991 Edition as 162A-David’s Lamentation, Leslie Booher. Recent performances include New Harp of Columbia 9th Annual State-of-Franklin Singing
at the New Bethel Cumberland Presbyterian Church; Greene County, Tennessee
Saturday June 6, 2009.
David’s Lamentation 239; Tune: William Billings, 1778; Lyrics: Holy Bible: II Samuel 18:33; Meter: Prose
David, the king, was grieved and moved
He went to his chamber, and wept;
And as he went he wept, and said:
"O my son,
Would to God I had died,
For thee, O Absalom, my son!"
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